Hi #Jazzeroo
What a lovely day today! I am glad to get your letter again.
Thank you for teaching me how to express my work.
I work as a software engineer, and I love my job. It’s much easier to cope with the computer than office politics. Fortunately, my colleagues are friendly, and most of them are straightforward enough, making my life easier.
Regarding my hobbies, when I was in my university, I loved playing Go games, and I was a crazy fan of computers though my learning specialty is forestry teaching. I also loved amateur radio things. I fixed broken radios or audio recorders etc., for my classmates in my spare time. I had these hobbies nearly 30 years ago. After graduation from the university, I had less spare time than I was at school. I previously worked as an office employee, a computer teacher who thought young guys studying how to type Chinese characters into a computer, a business owner. I officially became a programmer in 2005.
I have few hobbies after graduation. Hiking is the new one that accompanies me these years. I love hiking or walking in the mountains or the fields. Yes, sometimes I go camping when hiking. I love to be close to nature, stars, seas, forests.
You may know that people hardly get a work-life balance in China. Only a tiny part of the Chinese people who reach financial freedom can have much spare time and enjoy their life.
At the beginning of September 2018, I gave up my programmer career in China and went to New Zealand to a reunion with my family. They came to New Zealand at the end of March in the same year.
I have to pick up my English to get a student visa here. Eventually, I got an opportunity to study in Christchurch for one year in Feb 2019. I finished my study at the end of the same year and got a full-time programmer job after two months of my graduation.
Life in New Zealand is full of happiness even though the income is fewer than in China. I have more spare time, and I’ve got a new hoppy of gardening. We hadn't a garden when I lived in Beijing.
Today I have to continue to study English to get an IELTS 6.5 score to apply for the resident visa. But I am happy. I know I am seeking the ideal life I longed for.
That’s my short story. How about you?
I would like to know your story if you are happy to tell it.
Yours sincerely penpal, David
@21-Mar-2021
What a lovely day today! I am glad to get your letter again.
Thank you for teaching me how to express my work.
I work as a software engineer, and I love my job. It’s much easier to cope with the computer than office politics. Fortunately, my colleagues are friendly, and most of them are straightforward enough, making my life easier.
Regarding my hobbies, when I was in my university, I loved playing Go games, and I was a crazy fan of computers though my learning specialty is forestry teaching. I also loved amateur radio things. I fixed broken radios or audio recorders etc., for my classmates in my spare time. I had these hobbies nearly 30 years ago. After graduation from the university, I had less spare time than I was at school. I previously worked as an office employee, a computer teacher who thought young guys studying how to type Chinese characters into a computer, a business owner. I officially became a programmer in 2005.
I have few hobbies after graduation. Hiking is the new one that accompanies me these years. I love hiking or walking in the mountains or the fields. Yes, sometimes I go camping when hiking. I love to be close to nature, stars, seas, forests.
You may know that people hardly get a work-life balance in China. Only a tiny part of the Chinese people who reach financial freedom can have much spare time and enjoy their life.
At the beginning of September 2018, I gave up my programmer career in China and went to New Zealand to a reunion with my family. They came to New Zealand at the end of March in the same year.
I have to pick up my English to get a student visa here. Eventually, I got an opportunity to study in Christchurch for one year in Feb 2019. I finished my study at the end of the same year and got a full-time programmer job after two months of my graduation.
Life in New Zealand is full of happiness even though the income is fewer than in China. I have more spare time, and I’ve got a new hoppy of gardening. We hadn't a garden when I lived in Beijing.
Today I have to continue to study English to get an IELTS 6.5 score to apply for the resident visa. But I am happy. I know I am seeking the ideal life I longed for.
That’s my short story. How about you?
I would like to know your story if you are happy to tell it.
Yours sincerely penpal, David
@21-Mar-2021
